Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subway Tickets. Waiting for change at a subway ticket wicket has been done away with in parts of London. An efficient slot machine takes the money, makes the change, prints, dates, issues the ticket; all in exactly one second. Unscrupulous voyagers who feed it counterfeit coins are certain of detection. Electricity tests the. piece for conductivity as it drops in. If it is found wanting, it is angrily spat forth...
...marketing fund for them. Then, in years when the ten pig men raised more pigs than could be sold profitably in their home village, those who had surplus pigs could borrow from the fund to pay for transporting their pigs to distant markets, or to buy feed for pigs kept penned until the home village was ready to buy more pigs. In case the pig surplus was so great that the pig men's borrowings exhausted the loan fund, the pig men could always fall back again on the equalization fee plan. To ensure honesty, perhaps the philanthropist...
Mathias Blau of Chicago persuaded his wife, Helen, to have all her teeth pulled. Then he refused to buy her false teeth because, he said, it was cheaper to feed her on soup than on solids. Mrs. Blau went to court, was awarded two sets of store teeth and at least a beefsteak a week. Judge Jonas told Mr. Blau that he had committed "the meanest trick" he had ever heard...
...Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus the abnormal foreign demand for corn explains the current departure from the inexorable "parity." Farmers must win back on corn what they lose on swine. Furthermore, the situation in rye (unexplained except for unrivaled Eastern demand), is unusually bullish; U. S. rye supplies are now lower than they have...
...improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which permits 50% increases or decreases by the President independent of Congress. The Coolidge record is 18 increases and five decreases, the latter including lowered rates on bobwhite quail, mill-feed, paintbrush handles. President Coolidge has raised the tariff on such important commodities as wheat, butter, pig iron...